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Somehow I’ve gone all this time without realizing that Lolita is part roadtrip novel

Been at the top of my list for a while!

Back into thesis research!

The Graduate is my favorite movie and it's very summer and also I'm about to start my last year of school, all feels very appropriate

Taking a break from my thesis stuff for a bit!

Susan Sontag’s essay appended at the end might be better than the book itself, lots of people are saying this

Guys I promise all the erotica is for my thesis

Did you know there’s a Velvet Underground song named after this book

I love how much Baudelaire loves wine

Genuinely some of the most horrifying scenes ever put to paper but somehow written with a genuine beauty

The crazy oneric prose poems here rock, not so much the dry autobiographical bits. Can see where Dario Argento got his inspiration from

Reading Suspiria de Profundis now. What a beautiful and profound exploration of grief.

In the midst of the creature's long monologue about the cottager family — really beautiful stuff!

Been meaning to read this for several years, better be totally revelatory

De Quincey’s ability to write the best sentence you’ve ever read pretty much every other page

"...not even then, didst thou utter a complaint or any murmur, nor withdraw thy angelic smiles, nor shrink from thy service of love more than Electra did of old. For she too, though she was a Grecian woman, and the daughter of the king of men, yet wept sometimes, and hid her face in her robe."

Favorite book, re-reading because I don't know it feels like the right time